BCS FACSProgramme: 2018 Refinement Workshop

The 2018 Refinement Workshop is affiliated with FM 2018 and is part of FLoC 2018, Oxford, UK.

The programme for the 2018 Refinement Workshop is as follows:

09:00-10:30 Session 125J
Chair: Brijesh Dongol     Location: Blavatnik LT2
09:00     Ahmed Bouajjani: Automated verification of linearizability
10:00     Graeme Smith, Kirsten Winter and Robert Colvin: Correctness of Concurrent Objects under Weak Memory Models

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 127J
Chair: Heike Wehrheim     Location: Blavatnik LT2
11:00     Ian J. Hayes: Challenges of specifying concurrent program components
11:30     Marwa Ben Abdelali, Lamia Labed Jilani, Wided Ghardallou and Ali Mili: Programming Without Refinement
12:00     Mathieu Montin and Marc Pantel: Ordering strict partial orders to model behavioural refinement

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Session 128J
Chair: John Derrick     Location: Blavatnik LT2
14:00     John Clark and David White: A more relaxed way to make concrete: uses of heuristic search to discover implementations

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 Session 130I
Chair: Rob Colvin     Location: Blavatnik LT2
16:00     Emil Sekerinski and Shucai Yao: Refining Santa: An Excercise in Efficient Synchronization
16:30     Eric Hehner: a Theory of Lazy Imperative Timing

19:15-21:30 Workshops dinner at Magdalen College
Workshops dinner at Magdalen College. Drinks reception from 7.15pm, to be seated by 7:45 (pre-booking via FLoC registration system required; guests welcome).

Call for papers